[Reproduce-devel] [task #15272] Single target to build all high-level software (for testing)

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

URL:
  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15272>

                 Summary: Single target to build all high-level software (for
testing)
                 Project: Reproducible paper template
            Submitted by: makhlaghi
            Submitted on: Mon 06 May 2019 01:40:55 PM BST
         Should Start On: Mon 06 May 2019 12:00:00 AM BST
   Should be Finished on: Mon 06 May 2019 12:00:00 AM BST
                Category: Software
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: Postponed
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

Right now, the user has to specify which target they want the project to
build, and only those software that the project needs are installed. This is
ofcourse, the needed behavior for each project.

But for testing purposes (for example when a change to a low-level program is
made), we want to see how/if it affects the builds of all programs. One way is
to manually add the higher-level programs, but as our library of installed
software increases, we can't manually add/remove them.

Therefore, for such testing cases, it would be very useful to have a special
target in `TARGETS.mk
<http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/reproduce.git/tree/reproduce/software/config/installation/TARGETS.mk>'
(for example `build-all-high-level'). When this variable is given a value of
`yes', then an simple Make command in `high-level.mk
<http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/reproduce.git/tree/reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk>'
can go and read all the software names from `versions.mk
<http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/reproduce.git/tree/reproduce/software/config/installation/versions.mk>'
and set them as a target to build (ignoring the two  `top-level-programs' and
`top-level-python' variables).




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